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Nineteen-year-old Vic Damone is still breathless (though it doesn't show in his singing) over his shooting-star arrival at the top.
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Sunday nights at 6:30, CBS, is the new Simms starring time, when Ginny and Percy Faith and his orchestra style a musical half hour.
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By REN AIDEN
Frank Sinatra heads the Hit Parade (9 to 9:30, Saturday nights, NBC), working with singer Doris Day, Axel Stordahl's orchestra.
1 IC DAMONE, the tall, Brooklyn-born baritone ' with the Latin look, has good reason to smile each time he recalls the swift flow of happy events that brought him out of an usher's uniform into the broadcasting spotlight. Only 19 now, the ex-flashlight carrier is expected to gross $110,000 in the next year, singing on CBS's Saturday Night Serenade, waxing Mercury records, and making personal appearances in theaters just like the Paramount, N. Y., where Vic, just a few years ago, was escorting bobby soxers to their seats.
So if Vic is a little confused and breathless about his sudden success, you can understand why. The best he can say about it is "It's great, it's wonderful!"
In 1945 Vic was developing muscles restraining eager Sinatra and Como fans from climbing on the stage. Between his regular usher chores, Vic was also assigned to piloting the backstage elevator. Here life's ups and downs were forgotten when the ambitious usher had such glamorous freight as the current top swooners and dainty dishes like Dinah Shore and Margaret Whiting.
"I wondered if some day I'd be that kind of pas